Word: pattersoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...landed gently he was on the platform of a great hall in 1944. Before him a rousing parade was in progress. At its head, astride the White Horse, rode Representative Hamilton Fish, magnificent in khaki and gold braid. The White Horse was walking backward. Next came Colonel McCormick, Captain Patterson and "Cissie" Patterson, dressed as the Spirit of '76 with drums and fife abeat and asqueal. They were followed by rank on rank of portly male and female Delegates, all dressed like Grand Marshal Fish, all on similar white horses, each flaunting a khaki banner blazoned with four silver...
...native state, will yield to Wisconsin, which the General still claims as home, when the nominating roll call begins. "Can't you visualize the war whoop," he cries, "when Arkansas, third state on the roll call, rises to yield to Wisconsin!" Representative Fish, who shares with the McCormick-Patterson family his enthusiasm for MacArthur as an anti-New Deal candidate, has introduced a bill to repeal the Army ban on the political candidacies of men in active service...
...Robert P. Patterson dealt Nelson the unkindest cut. He said sweetly that he held Jeffers in "high esteem," deeply regretted if his "recent remarks should have been interpreted as reflecting" on Jeffers...
Nelson to the Hill. But the main attack on Nelson came from Capitol Hill, where the Truman Committee had begun to delve into the rubber and 100-octane programs. When War Under Secretary Robert P. Patterson charged that the rubber program had caused a shortage of 100-octane gasoline for planes, and thus delayed all-out bombing of Germany, the public had thought he was after the Rubber Czar, Bull Bill Jeffers. But when the Truman Committee dug, they hardly noticed Jeffers; the real quarry turned out to be Nelson...
Actually, Arnold, now a Federal judge himself, had been looking down his nose at A.P. for several years. In 1940 he had tried to persuade Washington Times-Herald publisher Eleanor Patterson to file a complaint after her application for A.P. membership was blocked by the Washington Star and Post. She refused. Two years later Marshall Field was willing. Target of the suit is A.P.'s set of bylaws. Under them it is almost impossible for a newspaper owner to get A.P. service, even if he can pay, in a city where there is already an A.P. member paper...